Visualizing community interactions

Presence was an installation that visualized the ebb and flow of people at the SVA Interaction Design studio.

When people arrived, they "checked in" by pushing a physical+ button. Doing this added a node to the shape projection on the wall. As people departed, they pushed the – button to remove a node from the dynamic shape.

These simple interactions spoke to how each person's presence can have an impact on the living, changing shape of a larger community.

We used Arduino to translate peoples' interactions with the physical buttons to inputs for the graphic, which we created in Processing.